A study into crimes resulting in violence and murder in the USA has revealed a shocking but not unexpected finding; the large increase in such crimes in the last six years is due to veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080113/ap_on_re_us/killings_after_combat
NEW YORK - At least 121 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have committed a killing or been charged in one in the United States after returning from combat, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The newspaper said it also logged 349 homicides involving all active-duty military personnel and new veterans in the six years since military action began in Afghanistan, and later Iraq. That represents an 89-percent increase over the previous six-year period, the newspaper said.
About three-quarters of those homicides involved Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, the newspaper said. The report did not illuminate the exact relationship between those cases and the 121 killings also mentioned in the report.
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